• Registered: 2015-09-18
  • Posts: 6

Topic: Problems with sharing to Facebook

Hello,

I have included the Facebook share button in a test gallery (produced with the -Pro Lightroom Plugin).

However, when I share, there is no image displayed in the pop-up Facebook share window (it stays empty); Yes, an image is set using an Open Graph og:image meta tag in the <head> section of the index.html page:

<meta property="og:image" content="/images/20120317_126-Edit.jpg" />

The current example is here:http://www.judophoto.com.au/judo/kidsjudo/

An advice pointing in the right direction will be appreciated!

Regards, JudoPhoto

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
  • Posts: 5,906

Re: Problems with sharing to Facebook

The og:image entry must be an absolute URL in the form http://www.example.com/gallery/images/image001.jpg
A relative path will not work.

You can either:

(1) Edit your gallery's 'index.html' page in a plain text editor and change:

<meta property="og:image" content="/images/20120317_126-Edit.jpg" />

... to:

<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.judophoto.com.au/judo/kidsjudo/images/20120317_126-Edit.jpg" />

... or:

(2) Rebuild your gallery with the Lightroom plugin and enter your gallery directory's URL (http://www.judophoto.com.au/judo/kidsjudo) as the 'Share Url' in the 'Sharing' section.
The plugin will use this as the first part of the path for the og:image entry (before completing the path to the first image in the gallery).